“Bro-Country” Defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as a New Word
“Bro-Country”—the much-maligned sub-genre of country music that is defined most purely by acts such as Florida Georgia Line, Chase Rice, Cole Swindell, and a host of others, was recently featured on the Cambridge Dictionary’s “New Words” blog as a neologism, or newly-coined word. And it couldn’t come at a better time since many of Bro-Country’s most dedicated perpetrators profess ignorance at the word’s meaning, while others have mistakenly adopted it as a term of endearment.
In a February 2nd blog, Cambridge define Bro-Country as,
bro-country noun a sub-genre of country music sung by young white men, featuring songs with macho themes such as trucks, drinking, and partying
It was offered along with a few other new music-themed words, including filk noun – a genre of folk music that is inspired by science fiction, and raptivist noun informal – a rap artist who uses lyrics to try to create political change.
“Bro-Country” is not officially a word that can be added to the English language forevermore just yet though, and does not appear officially in Cambridge’s dictionary either online or in print. It has however passed the first hurdle, or at least has the Cambridge University Press paying attention.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary staff, a word is featured as a new word on their “New Word” blog if it has “…been observed recently in written or spoken English by one of our staff or a special team employed to monitor the language for such neologisms, or new words…The entries for these new words are not as fully-featured for example, there is no pronunciation or grammar information because it is difficult to give such information with accuracy as the words are still so new in the language.”
That means Bro-Country still has to pass some more tests before being fully adopted. In the meantime, what is a country music fan who might not be a fan of Bro-Country supposed to root for? Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean the term describing it shouldn’t be considered a word. Then again, if the word “Bro-Country” is formally adopted, does this somehow give it more legitimacy?
Cambridge says, “We make no claims that these words will still be popular in a year’s time, nor do we approve or disapprove them we leave it up to you to vote with the thumbs-up and thumbs-down.” At the moment, the yeas and nays are neck and neck in the Cambridge Dictionary voting on Bro-Country.
This brings us to the dilemma of what the bros themselves think, and if they’d adopt the term even if it was made official, especially since they seem to have a language all their own. As Saving Country Music observed recently about Bro-Country kings Florida Georgia Line, and their command of the English language,
Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have their own language, partial to the most grammatically-challenged and stupefying vocabulary lurking in the dankest sewers of the English dialect, but not residing firmly in any specific one of them so no truly proper translation can be obtained. It’s like Pig Latin for douchewads understood by them and them only. And only with the perfect deficiency of brain cells will their concoction of Ebonics, metrosexual douche speak, and stagnant gene pool rural jargon become anything resembling coherent to the human ear.
Writer Jody Rosen coined the phrase Bro-Country in a piece that appeared in the August 19th, 2013 issue of New York Magazine where he defined the term as being music from a ““tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude.” The term caught fire from there, being featured in numerous segments on NPR, including one that interviewed Rosen about the phenomenon. Next thing you know, it was being adopted society wide…except by the very bros it admonishes.
But there’s a good chance Bro-Country won’t be around for long enough to enjoy full dictionary distinction and all of the rights and privileges thereof. The winds of change are blowing, and even though Bro-Country may still have some last gasp in successful singles or albums, the sub-genre’s fate seems all but sealed to be relegated to the trash bin of history as an ill-conceived hyper-trend. In full disclosure, Saving Country Music declared Bro-Country dead in September of 2014, and subsequently we’ve seen a downturn in the trend’s once dominant hold on mainstream country music.
Will defining Bro-Country formally give it undue legitimacy, or help chronicle it’s malfeasance on the country genre over the last few years? And if it isn’t formally recognized, will that prove just what a flash in the pan it really was? Saving Country Music’s stance has always been that the term was horrible, ripe for misunderstanding and to be co-opted by the bros themselves. A more distasteful sounding phrase like “laundry list” would have been more appropriate.
But whatever the final verdict is on Bro-Country as a word of the English language, we can almost guarantee the bros themselves with continue to remain completely and totally baffled by the entire discussion.
February 5, 2015 @ 10:48 am
I don’t see the “fake news” tag so I’ll say this: Radio country has hit a new low. Or maybe society in general has hit a new low.
February 7, 2015 @ 9:45 am
It’s society. Trust me.
February 5, 2015 @ 11:03 am
bro-country: noun. douche-baggery. see Massengill
February 5, 2015 @ 11:14 am
Its kind of a shame that the word ” country ” needs to be associated with this kind of ” music” at all . Perhaps ” Bro-Scat ” would have been the more appropriate label . Scat ,of course, not just being a way of ” singing” which involves no lyric ( similar to Bro ) no message or substance ( similar to Bro ) no right or wrong way to do it ( read NO RULES – similar to Bro ) but is also a dictionary term for animal feces .
February 5, 2015 @ 11:28 am
Yes, but at least scat takes skill. Bro-Country seems to be a safe haven for the talent-less who still want to be famous.
February 5, 2015 @ 4:03 pm
” Yes, but at least scat takes skill. Bro-Country seems to be a safe haven for the talent-less who still want to be famous. ”
I dunno Trigger …the last wild deer and several black bear I spoke with told me the opposite …..for them , scat-ting doesn’t take ANY skill
February 5, 2015 @ 4:47 pm
I don’t know Albert. As someone who’s dropped a deuce or two in the woods, there’s definitely some skill involved – at least if your tryin’ to keep it off your paws – and especially if your drunk…and on a hill!
February 5, 2015 @ 5:23 pm
well …it should roll downhill and out of the way …..so hmmm ….maybe your paws are too big or you should just turn around . Ok …that does take a little bit of skill
February 6, 2015 @ 9:29 am
The trick is to find slick-furred bunny.
February 5, 2015 @ 2:46 pm
Having just checked out the history of scat, I think you owe an apology to scat for even mentioning it in the same sentence as bro-country. 😉
February 7, 2015 @ 9:48 am
You’re right as usual Albert. I don’t like the word because it has “country” in it.
February 8, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
How about Bro-pop?, which is close to Bro-pap, apropos given these guys act like their brothers are their pappy’s. Or maybe Bro-necks? Maybe Trigger has laid out a nomenclature somewhere. The definition was succinct but not quite descriptive enough. FG line reminds me of the movie Idiocracy and Spinal tap mixed together”¦their scat is almost like a mockumentary. But when you realize it is genuine and no satire is involved you find yourself very disturbed.
February 5, 2015 @ 11:20 am
Whenever I see these bro-country guys I can’t help but think of the episode of the TV show Firefly (entitled “House of Gold”) when the crew first went into the whorehouse and Kaylee said, “Look, they’ve got boy whores. Isn’t that thoughtful?” You fellow Browncoats will know what I mean.
February 5, 2015 @ 11:32 am
Kinda ironic eh? 🙂
February 5, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
Trigger, have you heard Little Big Town’s new single “Girl Crush”? I find it refreshing that the song pushes the boundaries of sexuality topics in country music, while maintaining enough subtlety and double-meaning to be interpreted as a more traditional song as well.
February 5, 2015 @ 2:03 pm
I’ve heard it. May remark on it.
February 5, 2015 @ 2:10 pm
I’m no fan of LBT by any means with the exception of a few songs, but I find this song absolutely terrific. To me it’s not so much pushing the boundaries of sexuality in country music as just a great play on words, like many great country songs in the past. I love the basic arrangement and the way the song and lyrics and the way they’re conveyed make you feel just like the writer of the song. Like a great country song should.
But some of their stuff I just can’t stand.
February 5, 2015 @ 3:51 pm
I generally like this sort of writing, but in this case they reveal the hidden meaning in the last line of the first verse which is way too early. Better examples are Chad Brock’s “The Visit” and George Jones’s “the Corvette Song”, neither of which reveals its secret until the last line of the last verse. My personal favorite is Dusty drakes “One Last Time” which holds off until the very last full line of the song then drives the point home by leaving the last line incomplete.
As far as pushing the boundaries of sexuality in country music lyrics, I disagree. There are hundreds more sexually explicit country songs out there dating back to the 1950s. Frankly, I find it downright tame by today’s standards.
February 5, 2015 @ 3:55 pm
I would argue that the last line of the first verse has a double-meaning.
“Want everything she has
That smile and that midnight laugh
She’s giving you now”
The song leaves open the question of whom she wants all of this from: the man or the other woman?
February 6, 2015 @ 7:59 am
After reading it again I’ll admit that it could go either way. regardless, the next line – the first line of the chorus – fully gives it away which is still to early IMHO.
February 6, 2015 @ 3:50 pm
Nope.
“I want to taste her lips
Yeah, ’cause they taste like you”
Whose lips does she want to taste, the man’s or the woman’s?
I admit, this is a pretty fun game!
February 5, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
Why would “bro-country” be in the dictionary? Don’t they know that most bro-country fans are semi-literate?
February 5, 2015 @ 3:21 pm
It’s there because the fans need to know how to spell it so they can get it wrong.
February 5, 2015 @ 3:36 pm
Sorry, I have a bone to pick with the proposed definition:
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“bro-country noun a sub-genre of country music sung by young white men, featuring songs with macho themes such as trucks, drinking, and partying”
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Luke Bryan is pushing 40. Darius Rucker is 47 and his current single is a bro-country atrocity. Joe Diffie pandered to bro-country on “Girl Ridin’ Shotgun”. And so forth.
Ergo, I propose redefining bro-country as the following:
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“bro-country noun a sub-genre of country music sung by white men (and Darius Rucker) bereft of self-awareness, featuring songs with macho themes such as trucks, drinking, and partying”
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😉
February 5, 2015 @ 3:49 pm
Gotta be something about ‘girls’ in there somewhere. Something like ‘Songs about trucks, drinking and partying with their girl’.
February 5, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
I would also want to more specifically define “drinking”. A traditional country artist singing a heart-broke song about drinking whiskey at the bar to get over his girl is not “bro-country” to me. I think what they’re going for is some frat-boy twit doing keg stands and calling it “country” simply because he’s sporting a ball cap and a wallet with a chain, and I’d like the definition to reflect that.
February 8, 2015 @ 2:12 pm
You nailed it with frat. I did not want to offend anyone with the fraternity comment – it just never made sense to me. But as I read that definition, I could not stop thinking that these guys are a Bro-pop or bro pap fraternity”¦And some of the limited stuff I have seen almost has a homoerotic tinge to it. The dress, the hair, the dance, the singing about being tough – reminds me of closeted homosexuality and the theater. This garbage is to country what much of the 80’s pop was to the generation I grew up with. You look back on it with disdain, and embarrassment and yet you have some compassion for it as it was the culture you lived through. Hard to imagine people looking at Bro-scat with compassion but I am sure they will.
February 6, 2015 @ 6:40 am
“sung by white men (and Darius Rucker)”
Fuck me, that is awesome, I can’t stop laughing!!
What a bunch of dou
February 6, 2015 @ 10:05 am
Luke Bryan ain’t young, but in his mind he is. 🙂
February 5, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
“Bro-country” won”t make it into the dictionary, and it doesn’t belong there. As a pop culture phenomenon, it is just too short-lived to merit inclusion.
I say leave this kind of stuff to UrbanDictionary.com.
February 5, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
Alright, here comes my second draft:
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“bro-country noun a sub-genre of country music replete with endless summer sung by white men (and Darius Rucker) bereft of self-awareness, featuring songs with macho themes such as trucks, a celebratory form of drinking (both from the bottle as well as Dixie cups), ‘girls’ (as opposed to addressing them as women), using their trucks as bargaining chips to have sex with said ‘girls’, and partying; including but to limited to: “cruisin'” (See “Cruise”), “chillin'”, playing mixtapes featuring a hodgepodge of popular country, rock and rap artists at full volume, bonfires, “muddin'” (Consult Urban Dictionary for a choice definition of “muddin'”), and skinny dipping at a river bank. Its characterized by a notably sterile mode of production where traditional country instrumentation (even by “country-pop” standards) is curiously absent aside from the obligatory appearance of a highly-processed token banjo at times, as well as organic percussion, in favor of hip-hop influenced beats, drum loops and instrumentation informed by Pro-Tools (See Pro-Tools). Its vocals are informed by excessive use of Auto-Tune (See Auto-Tune), a rhythmic mode of delivery and cadence that owes decidedly to rap, and a heavy use of repetition in key lyrics to fill up empty space.”
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February 6, 2015 @ 9:34 am
Don’t ask around here, for heaven’s sake, but if you check with the proper authorities your parenthetical Darius Rucker note would be considered to be redundantly unnecessary.
February 8, 2015 @ 2:16 pm
please stop. the tears are going to fill up my solo cup.
February 8, 2015 @ 6:25 pm
Be the buzz in Easton Corbin’s Dixie cup then! That’ll make it all better! 😉
February 8, 2015 @ 7:24 pm
Sorry Noah. I just did “Clockwork” and I can’t do that stuff. Maybe it makes my world a little smaller”¦Guy Clark, Hayes Carll, Bingham, Steve Earle, Sturgill, Mike Cooley, Corb Lund”¦I could go on and on and even smaller but I cannot do Easton and that sound. It may not be bro country but I sure can’t swallow it. Cheers to having different tastes and sharing a disdain for bro scat!
February 5, 2015 @ 5:12 pm
I don’t know where else to post this so I’m posting it here to avoid going into cardiac arrest from holding it all in for so long . As a longtime music lover , player , writer , producer and performer, in listening to label and indie output over the past several years I feel absolutely cheated on so many fronts . To name just a few …
Firstly , the craft of writing a great song with some melody , some fresh , some perspective , some heart and some clever has taken a HUGE hit in today’s dumbed down ‘country’ music climate . When you consider the number of writers around and the glut of material inflicted upon the masses , shouldn’t there be more GREAT , timeless , unforgettable songs around . Doesn’t that say something about the quality of the writing being recorded in general ( as if most of us need to be reminded of that ) ? Whether it be commercial fare like Paisley or Urban or Lee Ann Womack’s recent foray into semi-indie territory …or Holly Williams last record or (your artist of choice here ) , for all of the output by all of these artists , sure …there’s some good stuff around . But for all of that output shouldn’t there be way more GREAT stuff around ? There’s a whole generation of GREAT , skilled , seasoned veteran songwriters with proven track records who are , to my knowledge , for the most-part still alive and who are seldom , if ever heard from musically . We should feel cheated by the fact that all of their talents and experience have been relegated to that little closet in the corner of the basement NOT marked ” where we keep the best stuff ” . I WANT to hear the best stuff and I’m tired of settling for less when I know its there hidden away in that room .
Secondly , why am I listening to three Les Pauls on the same track ..all overdriven and cranked to Eleven ALL PLAYING THE SAME CHORDS and no one contributing a decent solo or a solo at all when Paul Franklin , Brent Mason and countless other incredibly seasoned , skilled and gifted country Musicians( -fiddlers , harp players , dobro players , banjo players, mandolin players , pianists etc etc etc .) with a Capitol ‘ M’ can’t seem to BUY their way onto this music today ? Again , why are we being deprived of the talents of the BEST musicians the genre has to offer and all-but-forced to withstand the onslaught of so many talentless hacks song after song after song ? I WANT THE BEST STUFF. I know its out there . I’ve heard it , I’ve bought it in the past and I’ve seen these monster musicians at great shows all my life .
And lastly ( he said holding a large piece of gauze to the burst blood vessel by his right temple ) my intelligence is insulted every time this industry tells me Sam Hunt , the Kruise Kids , Aldean , Taylor Swift , Keith Urban and a hundred other sound-alikes are playing COUNTRY music . I’m angry that this industry goes right on insulting and offending my intelligence as though I don’t know the difference then follows the insults up with some condescending can’t-hold-water explanation of WHY this stuff IS ‘country ‘ music .
My grocer doesn’t tell me that green piece of ham is still edible cuz its within the indicated expiry date . He knows he’d be insulting my intelligence , if not poisoning me . My dry cleaner doesn’t tell me he can’t see that mustard stain on my just -cleaned blazer when he knows that I CAN see it. He knows how foolish he’d look and how offended I’d be . My mechanic doesn’t tell me my brakes are fine when I’ve just come sliding through his front bay unable to stop . He knows I’d be insulted enough to bludgeon him to a pulp with a tire jack .
So why does the country music industry think they can get away with trying to make us believe something we know isn’t true and force-feeding us unhealthy and un-digestable music fare ? What gives them the right to offend , insult and question MY intelligence and still expect me to purchase their product .
I feel I’m being humiliated , if not laughed at , by an industry that KNOWS how much better their product could be it they weren’t hiding away the BEST the field has to offer in the way of beautifully crafted substance-driven songs interpreted by the BEST musicians and singers around . And all of that IS still around .
February 5, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
AMEN brother,AMEN. I hope you feel better now.
February 6, 2015 @ 9:45 am
You have had your Good Will Hunting moment. You have come to grips with the problem, and hopefully there will be a solution.
We’ve all been there. Welcome. You are safe and among friends. 🙂
February 6, 2015 @ 9:46 am
Trigger: Hey, Albert? I don’t know a lot. You see this? All this shit?
[Holds up the industry file, and drops it on his desk]
Trigger: It’s not your fault.
Albert: [Albert shrugs] Yeah, I know that.
[Albert averts his eyes to the floor]
Trigger: Look at me son.
Albert locks eyes with Trigger]
Trigger: It’s not your fault.
Albert: [Albert nods] I know.
Trigger: No. It’s not your fault.
Albert: I know
Trigger: No, no, you don’t. It’s not your fault.
[Trigger moves closer to Albert]
Trigger: Hmm?
Albert: I know.
[Albert stands up, trying to keep distance]
Trigger: It’s not your fault.
Albert: Alright.
Trigger: It’s not your fault.
[Albert closes his eyes, he’s fighting for control]
Trigger: It’s not your fault.
Albert: Don’t fuck with me.
[Albert shoves Trigger back]
Albert: Don’t fuck with me, Trigger, not you!
Trigger: It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.
[Albert breaks into sobs. They hug]
Trigger: Fuck them, ok?
February 6, 2015 @ 10:46 am
Lil Dale: I beleeve this belongs to u now
[hands over scm comentar championship belt]
February 6, 2015 @ 3:52 pm
Ha, Trigger addressing Albert as “son” is quite hilarious! Based on the information I have gleaned from their comments, Albert is about 15 years older than Trigger.
February 7, 2015 @ 12:21 pm
I think it’s more than 15. I think Albert once said he was 65ish, and I think Trigger is 30ish. There’s probably at least a 30 year difference between them.
February 7, 2015 @ 3:35 pm
I don’t want to speak for Albert, but I remember him saying last year that he was 52. Maybe my memory is a bit hazy…
February 7, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
Oh ok. Maybe he’ll chime in to clarify.
February 8, 2015 @ 2:05 am
If you kids don’t knock it off I’ll stop this car …now don’t make me pull over !!
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I can’t figure out why the hell it matters how old Albert is but one of you is closer than the other . Now any more of this nonsense and NOBODY gets a pony ride today .
February 6, 2015 @ 10:39 am
You absolutely hit the nail on the head, you are not alone as there are more people out there who feel 100% the same. Lets hope this dark time is the “Disco” era of Country, keep on keeping on and with any luck these pathetic trends will vanish for good.
Long live Tradition Country Music.
February 6, 2015 @ 4:04 pm
Right on. I don’t think it’s so much to ask that professional “songwriters” and “musicians” TRY A LITTLE DAMN HARDER, even when they clearly don’t have to to appeal to casual listeners. What happened to taking pride in your work, making a quality product just for the sake of it? I guess it’s all about making the least effort for the most money.
February 15, 2015 @ 6:19 am
Nicely said. One of the hardest things for me to come to terms with is that this shit IS country music now. The industry hijacked the genre, turned it into something profitable, and the consumer validated it by buying into the garbage hook, line, and sinker. I’ve met enough people that think this kind of music is great to feel that the state of things is irreparable and the fact that country radio keeps shamelessly plugging whatever edgy shit it can find pretty much confirms it. So all that being said I won’t even identify country when someone asks me what I listen to but it’s too hard to explain what’s going on. I truly hope the race to the bottom is over for them though because I honestly don’t see how it could get any worse, but I’ve said that before.
Oh and has anyone heard that song camo and ammo by Kristy lee cook? Oh. My. God.
February 6, 2015 @ 9:32 am
Every time I think bro country may be fading, I turn on Sirius’ country station and they hit a new low. The newest — have you heard David Fanning’s “Doin Country Right” ? It’s go to be a contender for Top 10 worst songs of all time. I almost put a hole in my dashboard I hit the change-station button so hard. Google it, but be sure to listen on an empty stomach. Trig, I hope to see a rant about this song…
February 8, 2015 @ 10:13 pm
………wow, you weren’t kidding. That is a bloody terrible early contender for 2015’s “Ten Worst Country/”Country” Singles” list! O__O
The lyrics, in fairness, are just shamelessly cliched and overdone but aren’t among the worst I’ve heard. However, what makes this likely to land among the worst this year has to offer is the terrible stuttering vocal effect that Fanning puts into overdrive in the pre-chorus and chorus. Repetition of words to fill up empty space is a hallmark feature in bro-country, but it seems to be one of the lingering invasive species even as bro-country loses its dominance on the format. This is most evident in Blake Shelton’s mediocre but not terrible previous hit “Neon Light”, as well as Darius Rucker’s current dumpster fire of a single that is “Homegrown Honey”.
It doesn’t help matters that the production is much in vein with Chase Rice’s collaborators. Just not a pleasant song to listen to out of curiosity as a reviewer! -__-
February 9, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
Exactly, Noah. You hit the nail on the head with the stuttering effect. The lyrics, while pretty atrocious, are made much worse with that stutter. And we’re not starting off with genius here, considering such introspective lines as:
“It don”™t really matter what we do
As long we doin”™ it when we get there, so lets get there”
BTW, outstanding call out of Darius Rucker’s dumpster fire. Y’know, it’s one thing to come over from your ex-genre (pop) to have a second go at a music career… I actually have no problem with that, but c’mon you gotta do better than Hometown Honey. You should at least try to *elevate* your new genre… not add to the steaming pile. Good call…
February 10, 2015 @ 2:52 am
This is just f_______ crap crap crap crap crap crap . This guy oughta be embarrassed for himself and his family . WTF ??
February 10, 2015 @ 10:18 am
Totally agree. I would be less annoyed if it were just some viral video circulating among the dude’s friends, but this was on the radio!!!!! What programming director said “yeah, let’s play this to millions of people?”
February 6, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
My question is what happens to Country Music when Bro-Country Dies? We can’t go back to the way it was; can we? I mean, that would be like trying to re-kindle a relationship after divorce, it’ll just never be the same haha. So what happens in Nashville? All the record companies and writers move out and go to Boston and start writing Techno-Country? Opra-Country? Punk-Country? Obama-Country? Ballerina Frickin Country? I need to know so I can start writing in the new style.
~Cody Charles and The Law
February 6, 2015 @ 2:06 pm
Punk country would be great. I’m dead serious. One of the main points of punk is playing, writing and recording your own music, no label or corporate interference. That is exactly what country needs.
Also, cowpunk is a real genre, most prominent in the ’80s. Check out Jason & The Scorchers for an example. I would also consider Lucero to be a country punk band. They are awesome.
February 6, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
Sound-wise, punk country would be more of the same: loud electric guitars and flat melodies.
One of the heartening trends that I am seeing in country music since the middle of last year is the movement toward more airy music and the return of steel guitars. This is evident in Randy Houser’s “Like a Cowboy”, Brad Paisley’s “Perfect Storm”, Justin Moore’s “This Kind of Town”, and Eric Paslay’s “She Don’t Love You”.
Another fantastic musical performance comes from, believe it or not, Cole Swindell’s current single “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey”. The lyrics are mundane, but the instrumentation and the vocal style are strongly melodic and remind me of 90’s post-grunge rock.
February 6, 2015 @ 4:20 pm
While you likely would still have loud guitars, there would probably only be one guitar per track, maybe two. Punk isn’t supposed to be made with a bunch of hired session musicians so it wouldn’t be like country today with 3 electric parts, an acoustic part and a slide guitar all in one song.
It’s also common for punk bands to record one thoughtful acoustic ballad on each album. That’s the one that usually becomes a big hit. Country could use a hit acoustic ballad.
Also, if you look up bands like Lucero, you’ll see that country punk can be very melodic. Regular punk can also be melodic, like The Replacements.
February 8, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
And don’t forget John Doe with the Sadies. Country Club
February 6, 2015 @ 1:59 pm
The entry is nothing but an empty whiskey bottle, a discarded thong, and the screams of innocent children.
February 6, 2015 @ 4:15 pm
Also worth noting, Wikipedia now has a bro country page and it’s pretty negative. I find it interesting that they’ve now included bro country. About a year back I tried to edit Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean’s pages to say that they were considered to be bro country. Within a week both of my edits were deleted.
I also tried to add to Justin Moore’s page that there was controversy over his ACM nomination. I even cited sources. They still deleted it. Can somebody try to make those edits and see if they last?
February 7, 2015 @ 2:33 pm
How about: bro-country, noun, a sub-genre of pop posing as country music sung by redneck metrosexuals, featuring cheesy cookie cutter songs with macho themes such as trucks, drinking, and partying, often sexist towards girls and treating them as objects (see Girl In A Country Song)
Is it worth the print to add bro-country to a dictionary? Does this dictionary include older sub-genres of country music or is bro-country getting special treatment?
February 7, 2015 @ 4:02 pm
I see these losers becoming punchlines to jokes in ten years time. They will never be legends. They won’t leave a legacy. They’ll just fade away into obscurity and be remembered only for their lame music.
February 7, 2015 @ 10:34 pm
the problem with bro country started with red solo cup, the songs that were normally throw away songs and filler songs became big hits and they decided to get lazy and release the filler songs before their best songs for some reason.
February 8, 2015 @ 6:16 pm
I always wondered why everybody puts so much stock in whether it is “in the dictionary” or not, with any word. Words become words through usage. You know how many times in my life I heard that “ain’t” isn’t a word, but they knew exactly what I meant when I said it? Plenty. A dictionary is just a reference for commonly used vocabulary, not a celestial confirmation of existence.
That being said, I know the point here is that “bro-country” has become relevant enough to require someone to observe it as being in the American English vocabulary.
February 14, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
Hi Trigger
Bro-Country is pure garbage.
February 17, 2015 @ 1:55 pm
Yawn…..you’ve really got an echo chamber of ass-kissers here Trigger. Talk about beating a dead horse. Move on.